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by Hoarmurath
February 4, 2010, 12:09 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Dragon Age
Replies: 110
Views: 14865

Re: Dragon Age

Canelek wrote:I am not overly thrilled that it can't be cancelled (at least not on PS3).
On PS3 the square button zips through the dialogue.
by Hoarmurath
November 3, 2009, 8:50 pm
Forum: Cars
Topic: Car Shopping
Replies: 7
Views: 3913

Re: Car Shopping

My wife has a 2003 Scion tC and we both love it. It's really just a base Camry with a new body. Extremely reliable. We've had absolutely no problems at all with ours so far. I'd highly recommend it.
by Hoarmurath
March 11, 2009, 5:54 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Girl raped after accepting ride from stranger
Replies: 111
Views: 11985

Re: Girl raped after accepting ride from stranger

It's against the law to rape people. Therefore, no matter how stupid the victim is, she should not have gotten raped, she is not at fault, and the guy who raped her is completely at fault. Or does his apparent lack of proper education excuse him from understanding that you're not supposed ot break t...
by Hoarmurath
November 4, 2008, 3:32 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: US Air Force to 'Rewrite Laws of Cyberspace'
Replies: 11
Views: 1847

Re: US Air Force to 'Rewrite Laws of Cyberspace'

IPv6 fixes a lot of issues, such as security, besides just increasing address space. Maybe the Air Force will start implementing IPv6 all over the place and claim they invented it or something.
by Hoarmurath
May 20, 2008, 10:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: XXX /per second & you?
Replies: 48
Views: 6715

Re: XXX /per second & you?

I wish my connection was this fast all the time here in sunny Kabul:

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by Hoarmurath
September 22, 2007, 10:31 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What is your job?
Replies: 151
Views: 19533

Re: What is your job?

I'm an Airframe and Powerplant mechanic for a small aircraft operator doing government work overseas. By day I help maintain our small fleet of Russian Mi-17 helicopters. By night, I don my gear and become crew chief/flight engineer/loadmaster for the evening's flights around the area. We deliver go...
by Hoarmurath
April 9, 2007, 9:06 pm
Forum: Lord of the Rings Online
Topic: Tom Bombadil: overrated or underrated?
Replies: 9
Views: 2907

The story of Tom Bombadil is smothered in secret sauce!
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote:'And even in a mythical Age there must be some enigmas, as there always are. Tom Bombadil is one (intentionally).'
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, No 144, dated 1954
http://www.glyphweb.com/ARDA/t/tombombadil.html
by Hoarmurath
December 24, 2006, 1:18 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Web Hosting Suggestions
Replies: 63
Views: 12321

If you're just looking for space, what about Amazon? http://aws.amazon.com Amazon S3 Functionality Amazon S3 is intentionally built with a minimal feature set. * Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes of data each. The number of objects you can store is unlimited. * Ea...
by Hoarmurath
December 11, 2006, 10:44 pm
Forum: Audiophilia
Topic: Add a cool song
Replies: 451
Views: 194417

That song from Air reminded me of this gem form them as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2oGfKVhky4

And at the risk of making an ass out of myself, I really love the way Jack White plays the blues on this Son House cover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fM2qhG8mA4&NR
by Hoarmurath
November 30, 2006, 11:46 am
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Heroes Season 1 Discussion *SPOILERS*
Replies: 649
Views: 41110

Claire isn't unkillable, if you remember, she had a branch lodged in her brain, and she was dead until it was removed. I thought about this. Sylar seems to be able to "see defects" in people's brains that give them certain powers, so he steals their brains, and gets their powers. So maybe...
by Hoarmurath
November 20, 2006, 8:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Bullshit Users + spam posts
Replies: 26
Views: 3216

It seems like the same "people" sign up for a forum that I run at the same time they sign up here. The only difference is that I require e-mail confirmation. Until the new user clicks on the confirmation link in an e-mail, they stay in the "users awaiting email confirmation" grou...
by Hoarmurath
November 20, 2006, 12:20 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Democrats trying to bring back draft
Replies: 33
Views: 3018

Although the plan being pushed by Rangel is not for a military-only draft, it's a draft for government service in general, which could include any number of non-military jobs. But since that doesn't make as nice of a soundbite, nobody will mention it, I'm sure. I'm not really for a draft of any kind...
by Hoarmurath
November 16, 2006, 9:56 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Firefox / IE Add-ons
Replies: 12
Views: 1820

This may help out: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1457/

It shows all of your current tabs at once.

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by Hoarmurath
November 9, 2006, 11:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: That game we played with the thingies
Replies: 7
Views: 841

It was the one where one person was the "bad guy" ,one person was the cop, and everyone else was a "civilian". Maybe multiple cops and bad guys. Anyway, the bad guy killed one person per day, while the cop accused one person per day. Or something like that.
by Hoarmurath
November 4, 2006, 12:45 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Microsoft supporting Linux
Replies: 6
Views: 883

True enough, I suppose I have just become a little wary of the term "Linux" being used broadly because the various distros are now so different that knowing one doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to be as well versed with another. Especially when each decides on their own (and for ...
by Hoarmurath
November 3, 2006, 9:37 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: oh sweet mercy! [this is the BORAT thread]
Replies: 112
Views: 6015

Boogahz wrote:I won't go to other theaters anymore, so I will just wait for it to show up in a Drafthouse here.
Amen, brother.
by Hoarmurath
November 3, 2006, 1:42 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Microsoft supporting Linux
Replies: 6
Views: 883

"Linux" doesn't ship anything.

Novell != Germans
by Hoarmurath
November 1, 2006, 11:44 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Another one of those what to buy posts...
Replies: 30
Views: 2837

I know this sounds retarded, but I'll ask it anyway... How do you match up AMD and Intel CPUs? I'm under the impression that AMD outperforms Intel at the same GHz rating, so that isn't reliable, so I'm not sure how to compare the two.
by Hoarmurath
November 1, 2006, 10:48 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Another one of those what to buy posts...
Replies: 30
Views: 2837

So I've been thinking about getting a new PC as well, so I've been following this post. I'm still confused about which is better between AMD/Intel and ATI/Nvidia. I'm not parial to either one, but I'm curious about which is currently seen to be the market leader and how the performance stacks up, etc.
by Hoarmurath
October 25, 2006, 11:59 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Heroes Season 1 Discussion *SPOILERS*
Replies: 649
Views: 41110

I suspect Syler has something to do with the faulty hide tag. Perhaps winnow came to close to the truth so the only option left to syler was to eliminate the post. If EmoBoy posted here, would he combine powers and become Kyoutalas (Cartoukan)? As you can see, I have the power of mental retardation...
by Hoarmurath
October 25, 2006, 11:22 am
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Heroes Season 1 Discussion *SPOILERS*
Replies: 649
Views: 41110

Perhaps this thread's title should just be changed to "H E R O E S Spoilers" and do away with the spoiler tags altogether?

Or maybe make a new thread for the spoilers. *shrug*
by Hoarmurath
October 24, 2006, 3:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Where is my avatar from?
Replies: 6
Views: 979

Thanks! I was curious about it myself...it looked oddly familiar, but now that I've seen the commercial, I don't know what I was thinking of. Oh well, neat commercial.
by Hoarmurath
October 24, 2006, 3:46 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: LEEZARD!!!!
Replies: 9
Views: 1027

Happy Birthday, sleepy one!
by Hoarmurath
October 15, 2006, 6:21 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Erasing Hard Drive Data
Replies: 10
Views: 1682

Just zero-fill the damn thing, it's not rocket science.
by Hoarmurath
October 11, 2006, 9:52 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: infinite loop
Replies: 18
Views: 2050

Jive Dialectizer wrote:Endless quote doodad gots been done befo'e! Right on!
by Hoarmurath
October 9, 2006, 10:22 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Carly on 60 Minutes...
Replies: 22
Views: 2401

It's okay kyoukan, you don't have to stand up for every woman's reputation. I'm not sure how misogyny had anything to do with it, unless you mean that women can do no wrong, and if anyone ever thinks they did wrong, they are just woman-haters. Carly Fiorina had a very ambitious plan, and her failure...
by Hoarmurath
October 4, 2006, 12:44 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: DEFLOWER POWER
Replies: 57
Views: 4937

Oops, Fox News made a typo.

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by Hoarmurath
September 22, 2006, 1:18 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Cell Phone, Revisited
Replies: 18
Views: 2458

I'm a Verizon customer, and I had the V (LG VX9800) for almost 2 weeks. It's an alright phone, but it's a bit heavy and large. The keys are very easy to use, since there is more space to spread them out, so that's good. I'd say it's a great phone if you use text messaging often. I returned mine and ...
by Hoarmurath
September 14, 2006, 4:08 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Danes are pimps!
Replies: 11
Views: 1239

Danes are pimps!

I never knew that Denmark could be so superawesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Qp6hNgxGY

P.S. One of the video comments was particularly telling: "Denmark really is an ok country so any potential visitors den't let this video freak you out"
by Hoarmurath
August 15, 2006, 12:02 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: A Clockwork Orange
Replies: 41
Views: 3659

I've never read the book, which way did the missing final chapter leave the story? Apparently, the movie followed the U.S. version of the book, which was also missing the last (21st) chapter. The actual final chapter begins identically to the first — Alex has formed a new gang and reverted to his p...
by Hoarmurath
August 10, 2006, 9:19 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Terrorist plot in England
Replies: 40
Views: 5517

noel wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but:

He's holding a SCAR-L ?!?!
H&K G36K

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by Hoarmurath
August 7, 2006, 6:15 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Duran Duran live from Second Life
Replies: 1
Views: 392

Duran Duran live from Second Life

Winnow's going to love this, I bet:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5253782.stm

First paragraph of the story:
BBC News wrote:British band Duran Duran are to create a virtual island within online game Second Life, on which they will perform actual live concerts.
by Hoarmurath
July 27, 2006, 9:23 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Now this man is a true inspiration.
Replies: 17
Views: 1231

*~*stragi*~* wrote:oops i clicked on this thread

let me paste this over and over to shit it upoops i clicked on this thread
You hade me at "upoops".
by Hoarmurath
July 24, 2006, 7:19 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Leaked E3 tech demo video of the next Star Wars Game.
Replies: 6
Views: 901

Re: Leaked E3 tech demo video of the next Star Wars Game.

Animalor wrote:what's in the video is apparently just a tech demo of what the engine can do
It's not. It's actually a pre-rendered pre-visualization of what they want the engine to be able to do. Hopefully it will become a reality.
by Hoarmurath
July 24, 2006, 4:44 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: CLERKS 2 - July 21st
Replies: 40
Views: 3484

Psyloche wrote:I need a thesaurus to read that.
I still have no idea what "jejunity" means.
by Hoarmurath
July 24, 2006, 3:31 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: CLERKS 2 - July 21st
Replies: 40
Views: 3484

i'm very scared that this movie will ruin something i love and i will cry like i did at aeon flux. but perhaps i will check it out if none of you cried. It's very much in the same vein as the original. I think it's safe to say that if you like the original, you'll like this. Personally, I didn't li...
by Hoarmurath
July 24, 2006, 3:25 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Beerfest
Replies: 32
Views: 4370

Winnow wrote:Didn't care for Club Dread much
Same here...I had high hopes, and they were dashed. Hopefully they'll pull through with this one.
by Hoarmurath
July 24, 2006, 12:30 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Beerfest
Replies: 32
Views: 4370

Beerfest

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486551/

Saw the trailer for this over the weekend. If it's nearly as good as Super Troopers (and the trailer looks promising), then it will be a hit with me!

Appears to be opening on August 25th.
by Hoarmurath
July 23, 2006, 11:32 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: The Liberal Media Painting Grim Picture in Iraq
Replies: 81
Views: 5354

Interpret rough however you wish, but I think you know what I mean. I spent 4 years with the 101st, so yeah I think I know what you mean. ;) As far as reading between the lines goes, well, I'm always wrong when I do that, so I just take everything at face value and let the ensuing flames bring out ...
by Hoarmurath
July 23, 2006, 10:47 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: The Liberal Media Painting Grim Picture in Iraq
Replies: 81
Views: 5354

Okay, I agree with the gist of your argument, I just take exception to the wide brush you're using to paint both NG and AD units. I just think that NG units are trained a lot better than they used to be, and are (in general) better than you're giving them credit for. I also believe that you're "...
by Hoarmurath
July 23, 2006, 12:37 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: The Liberal Media Painting Grim Picture in Iraq
Replies: 81
Views: 5354

Prove it. Give examples of their active participation where they aren't providing security. 20th SFG(A). You seem to be able to use the Internet, find the examples yourself. For Active Duty this is much less of a concern because, as I said, they are 24/7 while NG is 2 weeks, and one weekend a month...
by Hoarmurath
July 22, 2006, 6:36 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: The Liberal Media Painting Grim Picture in Iraq
Replies: 81
Views: 5354

If any NG Combat Arms units are in the areas where combat operations are taking place, I can pretty much guarantee they are doing things like providing security and not participating in actual offensive operations. You can't guarantee that, because it's untrue. There are quite a few NG units that d...
by Hoarmurath
July 16, 2006, 8:30 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: How close is the Middle East to all-out war?
Replies: 113
Views: 7008

While I'm thinking about it, can anyone recommend any good resources online for reading up about the history of the Middle East? Honestly I'm more interested in ancient times than the modern history, but either would be good. Or, perhaps one or two books that do a great job of sumarizing things. Pr...
by Hoarmurath
July 8, 2006, 12:45 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: More proof...
Replies: 82
Views: 5443

Siji wrote:You DO of course know that the CIA division specifically responsible for hunting for Bin Laden was recently disbanded correct?
If you are trying to imply that we've stopped looking for bin Laden, then you're retarded. Try to read something besides the headline next time.
by Hoarmurath
July 6, 2006, 9:59 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Dead
Replies: 16
Views: 1402

Oops.
NYTimes wrote:Mr. Lay's death effectively voids the guilty verdict against him, temporarily thwarting the federal government's efforts to seize his remaining real estate and financial assets
by Hoarmurath
July 4, 2006, 12:18 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Good news for free markets...
Replies: 25
Views: 1800

Metanis wrote:Now it's a little too late to suddenly explore for new supplies and build new refineries and new nuclear power plants.
Why is it too late? It's because North Korea is going to anhiliate the U.S., isn't it?

But seriously...why is it too late?
by Hoarmurath
June 29, 2006, 9:19 am
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Superman Returns
Replies: 66
Views: 8717

Sirensa wrote:I give it an A (but not an A+ or A++)
Movies need 'EBay' ratings:

A+++++++ GREAT MOVIE WOULD SEE AGAIN

Note that I have not yet seen this movie, but I should be seeing it sometime later today.
by Hoarmurath
June 26, 2006, 11:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: You want to cancel your AOL account? Forget it
Replies: 27
Views: 5615

Deward wrote:I just stand in the background and ask him what does each animal say. Eventually they give up and hang up.
And this helps to cancel an AOL account how?
by Hoarmurath
June 23, 2006, 11:42 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Need Help: Boot managers, Windows, Linux, Dual Boot...
Replies: 5
Views: 661

Ubuntu is based on Debian, so the package management is quite different. Additionally, some things that are in one place in RH are in other places in Debian, and some things are done a bit differently, so it can be a bit confusing at first if you currently do everything "the RedHat way." T...
by Hoarmurath
June 19, 2006, 11:15 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Palestinians caught staging atrocity?
Replies: 17
Views: 1305

How about this then. Why is it that every serious plan for peace in the region has come from someone other than the Israelis or Palestinians?